It's completely random from what I can tell, I'll be fine one night and the next night have to recast over and over. GC already said it was bugged, no reason for me to test it, only to wait for them to fix it. Warlock talents more important than fixing one that is just straight up bugged apparently.

I think what he was trying to get at was that how do you fix something when you don't even know what is breaking it? And your warlock remark is just apples and oranges, two completely unrelated things.

During the raid on Wednesday I nearly freaked out ... Invocation bugged like never before ...
I remember several moments where I have to cast Evocation like 2-4 times till I finally got the buff. And it happened in the worst situations like on BL pulls or on other nuke phases ...

Still lucky enough to have never gotten it, nor had any other mages report it of my friends. Have bug reports been submitted to Blizzard? A mass of them might make it more noticeable, not just one person here and there.

Lucky you man. I've played some challenge modes today, you won't believe what it's like missing the buff in a challenge mode, when everything must go as planned and time-depending. It's even more punishing than Heroic raiding... jeez

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Originally Posted by zomgDPS

I want to feel the zomg in my dpspants when I throw pyros at someones face. How do you keep that feeling of 'zomg' in your pants while still nerfing throughput?

Everyone make sure to let him and the bug team know that what he said is bullshit. It's still affecting many of us.

Uses the same signature for over a year, just randomly gets infracted for it recently.
Placeholder signature is placeholder and will hopefully make me finish my shit.
Oh yeah, I'm a Druid and stuff.
I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall.

Many mages I know feel this way as well. Unfortunately for us mages Blizzard says they are just fine. One of these days they may come to realize one of the reasons they lose subs is because people feel frustrated with their class only to have Blizzard tell them nothing is wrong.

Mages certainly don't need a big revamp: they will never change from one big nuke with support for that nuke built around it.

However, Invocation is a revamp of the old rogue talent: Hunger for Blood. HfB was a 15% damage bonus if a bleed was on a target (any bleed, but at the time, rogues didn't want to bleed, usually). It was a single button you pushed every minute. It was dumb, gave little gameplay, and completely tanked your dps if you didn't do it.

Invocation doesn't require a bleed but it does require a channeled spell. I can't think whey the recreated such an awful spell. I like my mage but that one talent.

Tweeted GC* with the same text he answered on the 8th of june as a reply to the tweet where he said it was fixed. Nowadays I start to spam invocation earlier than normal on the pull so I am guaranteed get 3-4 in before MI, flasks etc.

after 3 minutes of chain casting Evocation with the Invocation talent, I seem to always gain the invoker's energy buff.
A few days ago I could've sworn it didn't proc at one moment. Maybe I'm just lucky today.